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THE GODDESS OF PEACE 

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THE KING OF WAR 

Iba Snow 



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IDA SNOW 

Author of "The New Era", "War and Philosophy", "Mother and Son' 
"Science and Women", "A Round-The- World Tour", etc. 



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THE GODDESS OF PEACE 

AND 

THE KING OF WAR 



A PLAY IN ONE ACT 

BY 

IDA SNOW 



CHARACTERS 

General Von Mars , ,King of War 

A German 

Lord Heartings .An Englishman 

Nanak Shah , A Great Rajah 

From India 

Vanderbilt , An American 

Caesar , From the Unseen World 

Lady Heartings An English Lady- 
Mrs. Vanderbilt An American 

The Goddess of Peace From the Great Unseen 



Scene: Drawing-room sumptuously furnished at Lord Heartings. 

The Lamps are soft; the air delicious with the fragrance of flowers. 

A pleasant hum of voices arise. 



NANAK SHAH 
Here comes the King of War — General Von Mars. (General Von Mars enters in full 
military uniform) 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Welcome all. One year ago since last we met. 
NANAH SHAH 
Well, General, are your views the same as usual on Militarism? 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Absolutely. War is a biological necessity. The state of Nature is a state of War. 
You talk of Perpetual Peace. What possible guarantee have you for Peace? 

LORD HEARTINGS 
The guarantee for Perpetual Peace is furnished by no less a power than the Great 
Artist, Nature herself. The mechanical course of Naturfe visibly exhibits a design to 
bring forth concord out of the discord of men. It is the deep Wisdom of a Higher 
Cause. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
(Bowing obsequiously) Let man be noble, resourceful and! good. (Rising to his 
full height and drawing his sword). 

Raise hands to heaven and cry to God 
From the height of the Starry sky. 
May thy ringing sword flash bright: 
Let every craven cry 
Be silenced by thy might! 



(Copyright, 1916— by Ida Snow.) 



VANDERBILT 
General, Your poetical eloquence is epidemic. But you are a thousand years behind 
the times. Otherwise, wou might raise an army. You have the stuff in you, General, for 
commanding a Mighty Army. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
I want not a "Mighty Army." Huge armies are a danger to their own cause — suffo- 
cated by their own fat. Efficiency and Tactical worth of troops are more important 
than numbers. Rome conquered the world with an inferior force. Frederick the Great 
with inferior forces, withstood the allied Armies of Europe. Japanese army — over a 
crushing superior opponent. 

Friends !^ — I have a secret! In 1900 I was upon the earth. My name was Von 
Bernhardi — General Von Bernhardi. I wrote a book called "Germany and the Next 
War." 

They tell me I was the cause of that "Holy War: "holy to we Germans. But alas — 
the most ghastly war the world has ever witnessed. A war full of frightfullness! 
Germany against the allied forces of Europe! 

NANAK SHAH 
Yes, that was a war of Terror! Thank God, in our present stage of civilization 
such a state of things is impossible. 

Standing armies are a constant menace, to other states, exciting them to outrival 
each other in the number of their armed men. By the expense occasioned thereby, 
peace becomes even more oppressive than a short war; and standing armies are thus 
the cause of aggressive wars, undertaken in order to get rid of their burden. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
Fancy men being hired for pay to kill or be killed! This would imply the using 
of them as mere machines and instruments in the hand of another, although it be the 
State. This can not be reconciled with the right of humanity in our own person. It is 
quite otherwise as regards voluntary exercises of citizens in arms at certain periods 
for protection. 

The right of men must be regarded as Holy. 
All Politics must bow the knee before the principles of Right.,. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
In former days they made a jest of Right. That word should have been banished 
from their Policy of war as pedantic. Man willed — Might, not Right, — ^should Rule. 

NANAK SHAH 
Nature wills that Right shall obtain the supremecy. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Man is a fighting animal. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
Man was a fighting animal — when this was a Physical World. But since 1900 there 
has been a stupendous crisis in Nature — the arrest of the animal It is now a Psychical 
world. It is another man that goes on — the man within the man; and that he may go 
on — the first man must stop. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Ah! I see! This body is the House of a Brute, let to the Soul of Man! Alas! — for 
the tragedy of the Soul! 

My Body to Intelligence is an absurdity! The idea of having to feed it, to exercise it 
and humor it, and put it away in the dark to sleep, to carry it about with us every- 
where. And not only it, but its wardrobe, and other material things to make this ma- 
terial thing warm. The whole situation is a Comedy! I shall leave this brute organ- 
ism and take a Psychical excursion to realms above : get a glimpse of Cosmic Things. 
Transcendental Ecstasy— such as was felt by Elijah of old, Plato, Artistotle, Dante, 
Matter is an Illusion! Spirit is the only Reality! Thoughts and feelings will be tele- 
pathed to me from regions above. My words will become rhythmical and beautiful and 
sentences of musical power will fall from my lips. You will all be swept away by my 
power of Eloquence. I can then raise an army by magic! War! War! 
The Alpha and Omega of Existence! 
To the brave Soldiers open files, 
The golden gates of Paradise! 
LORD HEARTINGS 
General, when you mentioned things of the Unseen World, I observed a tinge of doubt 
and sarcasm in your voice, and yet you inadvertently mentioned a Law which must need 
be at the very Center of Cosmic Evolution— Telepathic intercourse between embodied 
and disembodied Souls. 



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NANAK SHAH 
One can never attain to that great power while living in the Empirical — Cat and Dog 
world of war and bloodshed. 

One must rise to a higher state — the Transcendental Esoteric World. 
General, why not encourage visions of Peace rather than visions of War? War em- 
phasizes the primitive brutality of man. In past ages war was a melancholy necessity, 
a drastic medicine for the human race. But we are not going back to those days. 
According to our Transcendental Principles of Publicity, which solve all Rights of the 
State, and of the individual, we listen to you. General, rather than have your war-like 
ideas brewing in secret. At the same time we realize that an epidemic of ideas and 
opinions are more dangerous and damaging than bodily illness. He is no true States- 
man who does not reckon with this factor of natural psychology. We must preserve 
the moral and intellectual hygiene of our nation. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
This Noble Body thinks General Von Mars ideas of war not good for the moral health- 
iness of the Nation. To be honest, I must say that I can see but very little difference 
between the white savages of Europe, of the 19th century, and the red savages of 
America; While the red savages would eat up their enemies, the white savages would 
add them to their subjects and thus increase their instruments of war and bloodshed. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
The notion of a right to go to war can not properly be conceived as an element in 
the Right of Nations, for it would be equivalent to a Right to determine what is just 
through one sided maxims that operate by means of Force. If such a right be conceivable 
at all, it would amount to this : that if men are so disposed, it is quite right for them to 
destroy and devour each other. 

This Philosophical sin Germany committed when she captured Belgium and main- 
tained that the absorption of a small state is pardonable if a larger state of "Kultur" 
gains. The smallness of the object of an injustice does not prevent the injustice 
inflicted from being very great. 

In 1900 diplomatic codes had no legal force, as states stood under no legal con- 
straint. 

NANAK SHAH. 
In these days we are governed by Transcendental Principles of Public Right. A 
Cosmo-political — right of the whole Human Race is a necessary completion of the unwrit- 
ten code which carries national and international right to a consummation in the Public 
right of Mankind. Thus the whole system leads to the conclusion of a Perpetual Peace 
among the Nations. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
Our present civilization proves that Perpetual Peace is no Empty Idea, but a Prac- 
tical Thing. 

GENERAL VON MARS. 
Lord Heartings. I am not yet converted. 

Fortunes greatest gift to man 

Is Personality alone! 

Laws make the world the same 

But in War mans strength is seen 

War ennobles all that is mean 
Even the Coward belies his name! 
VANDERBILT. 
Lord Heartings. We know your Lordship has great telepathic powers. I am sure 
this Noble Body would appreciate a practical demonstration of this Law of Telepathy. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
I am a skeptic— longing to be converted. Is it possible for the Great Caesar to ma- 
terialize himself in our presence? 

LORD HEARTINGS 
All things are possible. The discovery of Telepathy opens before us a potential com- 
munication between all life. This is the highest law with which human science can 
conceivably have to deal. 

It is more difficult to get en rapport with great men like Caesar than with the more 
ordinary folk. Caesar when last upon the earth was a Great Seer. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
I wish to see him as a noble warrior — belted, plumed, and in full military fig! 

LORD HEARTINGS 
General you may have your wish realized providing Caesar has a message for this 



Assembly. The law of telepathy has opened a pathway to the scientist to rise to the 
Unseen Worlds and tell of the life of its inhabitants and their laws. It is nothing new — 
nothing mysterious. Thousands of years ago the Atlantians were so in touch with the 
unseen world that to them, that world and this was almost one. 

Dogmatic materialism of the last century, closed the spirit door of the Great Unseen. 
But that door is now ajar. 

NANAK SHAH 

(Rising and raising his hands to Heaven.) A moment — Silence! 
LORD HEARTINGS 

Behold! — The Great Caesar! 

(Caesar appears as if by magic;) 

(Belted, plumed and in full military accoutrements.) 

(All rise, reverently bowing.) 

CAESAR 

Friends! I have a message for this distinguished Body. Many of you I have known 
of old. Look not upon me as something mysterious because I have come from the Un- 
seen World and am no longer chained to matter. 

I have materialized myself in etheric matter— ether, that subtle, material substance 
existing in space. 

The princely aspirations and noble deeds of Lord Heartngs are much talked of in 
our world, and, when possible, we are pleased to respond to his Lordship's call. 

You have in this Assembly a rebellious spirit; an able man of heroic deeds — Gen- 
eral Von Mars. 

GENERAL VON MARS 

(Bowing.) Great Caesar — I salute thee. 

CAESAR 

It is not the first time that General Von Mars has saluted Caesar. Once upon a time 
when my Royal Palace in Rome was converted into an Imperial Tent for a Banquet 
— a Prandium — given to my officers of the army — all in military accoutrements, your 
General Von Mars — Count Bellini was his name in those days — this daring, audacious 
General, unbelted his sword in the presence of Caesar! 
GENERAL VON MARS 

(Bowing very low.) Million pardon! — Noble Caesar — dids't thou murder this au- 
dacious fellow? 

CAESAR 

"Count Bellini" — that was your name — "Leave this earth" (roared Caesar) "Come 
back to me two or three centuries hence, when you have learned to respect Caesar!" 
GENERAL VON MARS 

A philosophic answer worthy of Caesar. Ah!.. I was then a noble Roman! — fight- 
ing with Ceasar! — Those days of Roman warfare! — So wild, so full of peril, excitement 
and romance! After war — days of idleness — basking all day in the sun — fragrant tor- 
ches, Arabian odors — perfumed waters. This brute — body refreshed, cuticle cleaned and 
polished, oiled and perfumed^ — then — dine and get drunk! 

Fancy General Von Mars one of the Roman gentry that wore the Toga! A pretty 
affair that Toga! — A vast sweeping Toga — filling, with a strong gale, like a balloon! 

Fancy the roar with which this magnificent figure would be received into the 
bosom of a modern household. Had there been nothing left as a memorial of the Romans 
but that one relic — The Toga — I should have known that they were born and bred in 
idleness. And in those early days — poor heathen creatures^ — you had no candles. 

CAESAR 

Candles indeed! Our worthy mother earth would have shuddered had her nations 
asked for candles, — with so much excellent day-light running to waste; and provided 
gratis! None but idlers did live by candle light. The ancient Romans were early to bed 
and early to rise. Up with the Lark. 

VANDENBILT 

In the case of candles I approve of my dear mother's parsimony. Much mischief 
is brewed by candle-light. But it was coming it to strong to allow no pipes, no cigars, 
no tobacco. In this point I must tax the dear old Lady — or dear young Lady — geologists 
know not her age — with being really too stingy. Many a wild fellow in Rome would 
not have played h — as he did if he could have soothed his angry stomach with a cigar. 
A pipe has intercepted many an evil scheme. 

CAESAR 

Although ancient Rome had no candles, no pipes, no cigars, no tobacco, she was far 
mo'-e advanced in many ways than modern Europe. Many a time, from his invisible 
height, has Caesar looked down with scorn upon the Gothic blood; its absence of grace. 



elesance and fancy, and most of all— The barbarism of their Banquets! 

LORD HEARTINGS 
For instance — Dr. Johnson at dinner-! Such a banquet! — What maniacal haste and 
hurry! Odious clatter of knives and plates! What swelling of veins in the temples! — 
What fury in the eyes with which they contemplated the dishes! What silence of the 
human voice! 

LADY HEARTINGS 
Positively, it must have been an indecent spectacle to see Doctor Johnson at dinner! 
It makes one ashamed of one's ancestors. 

VANDERBILT 
Why not disinherit oneself backwards — cut the connection. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
In my mind's eye I see a snug party in a parlor — 

"Cram^ming as they on earth were crammed, 
All supping wine, all supping tea; 
But as you by their faces see 
All silent and all d — d!" 
Contrast this scene — the infernal silence of voice, and fury of eyes, with the fes- 
tivity, social kindness, elegance, and music of a Roman Coena! 

CAESAR 
The Romans were the first people that discovered the true secret and true meaning 
of dinner — the great and important office which it fulfills — and to make that physico- 
intellectual thing out of dinner which it was meant to be, and is capable of becoming 
and thus throwing the grace of intellectual enjoyment over an animal necessity. Festal 
dinners save a nation from madness. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Ceasar, there was nothing festal in your military Prandium! Bread and biscuit 
taken standing — in the open air — ever ready for the enemy! 

CAESAR 
General, you descended violently at the exact and martial character of a Prandium. 
But Ceasar was wise. He understood — luxury untunes the mind for doing and suffering. 
In modern times you give your soldiers whiskey, wine, absinthe. Caesar could not 
contemplate an idea so frantic! 

MRS. VANDERBILT 
Caesar — do tell us just what is meant by a jentaculum! 

CAESAR 
Your dictionaries — dull deceivers — call it a breakfast. The difference between 
a jentaculum and an English breakfast is as wide as between a horse chestnut and a 
chestnut horse. 

A jentaculum consisted of a hard biscuit-— run twice through the fire — half a fig, 
by way of garnish, and a sledge hammer. 

MRS. VANDERBILT 
A sledge -hammer! 

CAESAR 
Yes, to secure the certainty of mastication! Augustus took his jentaculum in his 
carriage. Caesar frequently took his in the Forum. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
Which is like referring a man for his salle - a - manger to Westminster Abbey or 
Fleet Street! Contrast this jentaculum with a Christian breakfast; hot rolls, eggs, 
coffee, beef — but say no more — rebellipus vision! — or one may breathe a malediction 
on the classic era, and thank our stars for keeping you back from the Augustan age 
and reserving one for a time when breakfast had already been discovered. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
If a man could run into a leg of mutton at twelve, one might forgive a nation the 
madness of denying him a breakfast. 

Life would be a wilderness unless relieved by refreshments at intervals through the 
day. 

CAESAR 
By losing breakfast, you sometimes gain a dinner.. In ancient Rome the appetite was 
regarded as a holy vestal flame, soaring upwards towards dinner throughtout the day. 

VANDERBILT 
That's as they do in America — one meal a day and then — a regular gorge! 

CAESAR 
General Von Mars — Your Ora indicates a raging storm! Out with it! 
GENERAL VON MARS 



Yes! . . .Unloose not the Tiger! .. .It is in a boiling, seething rage! 

CAESAR 
Caesar can read your every thought. Out with it! 
GENERAL VON MARS 
(Furiously) What right had Caesar to banish from the Earth my former self in 
those glorious days of war! 

Caesar's doomed words are ringing in my ear: — "Count Bellini — leave this earth — 
return centuries hence, when you have learned to respect Ceasar!" 

Centuries have passed — Caesar and Count Bellini — now General Von Mars — meet 
once more. The war-like Caesar promulgating — Peace! 
Dream of a peaceful day? 
War! is my rallying cry. 
Onward to Victory or Death! 
Death to Caesar! 

(He draws his sword and rushes for Casar. Lord Heartings stops him) 
LORD HEARTINGS 
Sheath your sword! You're mad! General Von Mars cannot harm Caesar! 

CAESAR 
General Von Mars, you are right. Caesar was wrong. In those past days of unbelief, 
Ceasar placed no store upon life. Count Bellini — now General Von Mars — was one of the 
many victims of war and bloodshed. But let the dead past bury its dead. 
Caesar now occupies the Chair of Wisdom: Illuminating the Earth. 
I have a message for all those in this assembly who are still under the influence of 
the false teachings of the Empirical Philosphy of the nineteenth century. I will illustrate 
with a drawing. 

(Caesar with a majestic move of the arm, looks Heavenward.) 
(A mysterious being enters with a huge drawing.) 



No.l 



No.2 



No. 3 



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The C and D are the cat and the dog world. The cat and the dog can only understand 
their own little world. Here (pointing to No. 2) is Germany and the Allies; fighting in 
the cat and dog world; emphasizing the individual Self, individual Nations instead of 
rising to higher and greater things. No. 3 illustrates the three philosophies: the Empir- 
ical Philosophy — the Self; this was the German Philosophy. Above, the Transcendental 
Exoteric and the Transcendental Esoteric philosophies. The only real philosophy is 
the Transcendental Exoteric and Esoteric. When we rise to this height we see ourselves 
in everything; see the unity of things. There is no longer any taint of national feeling. 
In these days we recognize human solidarity; the oneness of Humanity. 

The western civilization of the 19th century was the outcome of the intensification 
of that side of man's nature we call the concrete and scientific mind. 

The great structure of Industry and Credit was like the Monster of a Frankenstein. 
Their credit system was based on Industry. The whole system was rotten; because it 
put "business," "profit," first, and the well-being of mankind second. And the whole 
gigantic structure was rotten through and through. 

This was demonstrated with grim emphasis in the 19th century War of Terror. Col- 
lapse — collapse of the whole credit system of the world. 

What brought about the "Great European Crisis?" Science, invention, business, 
commerce came first — mankind came second. The Brotherhood of man came second. 
The result was War. The rapidly increasing German armament was a menace for many 
years to the whole of Europe. 

It is a foregone conclusion that the arming of nations can have no other result than 
the culmination of the martial infiuences in a war crisis. 

In the present day we are so horrified at the ghastly physical concomitants of war, 



that we marvel that a thing so obviously hideous and brutal should have gone on from 
time immemorial with the persistance of a natural phenomenon. And yet we know that 
wars were necessary at their low stage of civilization. They were mighty forces for the 
swift evolution of the man. 

The world has now entered the constellation Aquarius, the water-carrier, the puri- 
fier, — the symbol of the Science of Wisdom. 

Behold! — Here comes, on her golden round, the Goddess of Peace! — Listen! 
(Etherial music heard from a distance.) ,; 

(All rise as Caesar mysteriously vanishes.) 
(Enter the Goddess of Peace, arrayed in white with wing-like drapery, tinged with 

gold.) 
(All reverntly bow.) 

Goddess (Chanting) II have come — to bring — you a Message from the Mighty Depths 
of Space! — Have been visiting the Solar System! 

LORD HEARTINGS 
Great Goddess of Peace! — Supremely Beautiful in Character and Fo'-m. Thou art 
The Embodiment of the Supernal Mother of All Living — The Gloria in Excelois of the 
Soul freed from bondage! 

NANAK SHAH 
Goddess of Peace thou hast on thy head the double crown of Creative Motherhood! — 
The representative of the Eternal, Mother of Isis! — The one before the Gods were, — Self 
existant, self procreative! — Elohim, — The Supernal Mother! 

GODDESS 
Nanak Shah, thou hast an understanding heart, thou are well versed in the Law of 
the ancient Uupanishads. 

Yes, through the evolvment of the Divine Woman the Law of Rightousness and 
Justice prevailed and the Peace of the World was established by a Right Judgment in 
all Things. Thus the Science of Wisdom, the Knowledge of the Law of Thora, the 
Divine Woman, inaugurated a new order of things ; brought all into Unity with the Eter- 
nal Truth of Life. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess! — Thou art like the masterpieces of Greek Art; — Harmony and Rythm, 
Grace with Power, Supreme Beauty, Nobilitv of Character. Ma Divinite! 

GODDESS 
Ah! — General Von Mars — King of War! I have known thee of old! (chants.) A man 
of heroic deeds — but a rebellious spirit! In character, not unlike that fiery young 
planet — Mars ! 

GENERAL VON MARS 

Ah! But what of Uncle Jupiter? 

GODDESS 
Uncle Jupiter has a fine family of Mammoths.but has not yet finished his exten- 
sive premises, as a comfortable residence for man. As yet, Uncle Jupiter has no family 
of Humans. 

VANDERBILT 
I suppose Jupiter is a younger brother of our Mother, The Earth? 
By the way, is our Mother Earth a young chicken, or is she getting on in years? 

LORD HEARTINGS 
That is a delicate point, who could put such an improper question to a Lady Planet. 
Some of we Mortals think our Earth is in that stage of her life which corresponds 
to that playful period of a young sprightly girl, with an overflow of vivacity, and that 
earthquakes, volcanoes and all such little escapades, will be over, will "Cease" as soon 
as our earth reaches the age of maidenly bashfulness. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
An earthquake, plus or minus, what harm should that do any of us — we who are 
Immortal Spirits! 

VANDERBILT 
My own Impression is, that our little Earth represents a fine noble young woman 
full of the pride so becoming her sex, and well able to take her own part in case that 
she should meet one of those vulgar Fussy Comets, inclined to be rude and take improper 
liberties. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
I should place the Earth in the category of decaying women, palsy that shakes her 
snowy white hair. Asthma that shakes her whole fabric. There are times when I 
fancy I can absolutely hear the Tellurian lungs wheezing, panting as the earth ap- 



preaches her Aphelion. 

GODDESS 
Such an idea the Earth would abominate. Upon this point of age your ideas explode 
as wine-glasses of old were shivered by any treacherous poison they contained. 

Our Mother Earth is a lovely little thing vei-y much admired throughout the Solar 
system (chants) with her bonney, wee, pet of a moon tripping around her like a lamb. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
But she only has ONE Moon. 

LADY HEARTINGS 
Even that is an advantage as regards some people that keeps none. 
I should like to see the planet that would fancy herself entitled to sneeze at our 
Earth. 

But, Goddess, the problem has not yet been solved; is our Mother Earth, young or 
old? 

GODDESS 
In reality our earth is both young and old. In fact, she is a Phoenix that is known 
to have secret processes for rebuilding herself out of her own ashes. She has seen 
many a birthday, many a funeral night, and many a morning resurrection. 

Where now the mighty Oceans Roll, once were anchored continents, and boundless 

f OFGStS 

GENERAL VON MARS 
But, all wise, enchanting Goddess, what is the latest intelligence from the Planet 
Venus? 

GODDESS 
Venus! — Je I'adore! — Venus the Land of Peace! The inhabitants are supremely 
beautiful and renowned for their wisdom. They can do the most wonderful things, 
they possess indescribaltle power. The elements obey them; forces too subtle for the 
earth's people to distinguish, are available to them. These people float in the Air with 
out any apparent appliances to assist them, but simply through their inherent wills. 
They are not confined to one planet. They know the powers of a thousand secret 
forces of which you on earth know nothing. They build palaces far out in the air, 
and surrounded them with wonderfully beautiful things unknown to the Earth, 
GENERAL VON MARS 
How is it that these exquisite creatures, with all their wisdom and power of 
moving from planet to planet, do not come down to the Earth and enlighten us! 

GODDESS 
Ah! For a long time they have been trying to communicate with you but you are 
ignorant of the very existence of that subtle fluid through alone they could communicate, 
or come en rapport with you. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
In this wonderful Country, is it the men or the women who rule? 

GODDESS 
Man governs and women rule. Naturally the women have the enfranchisement on 
the same terms as men. The men are awake! They realize; 
The woman's cause is man's; 
They rise or sink together 
Yet in the long years liker must they grow 
The man be more of woman, she of man; 
He gain in Sweetness and in moral height 
She mental breadth 
Nor lose the child-like in the larger mind. 
But listen: — (chants) I have come — to bring — you a message — from the Mighty 
depths above — the scientific psychological world — about all women and Peace — Peace! 
A Universal, Genuine, Practical Peace. 

Know-ye-all — Man is Man! and Woman is Woman! Parrot like we. repeat this 
without the slightest comprehension of what is the real significance of the duality. 

If our dear friends' — of past ages had known more — and feared less — that parrot 
like expression would never have been used— as they use it. Because, for that very rea- 
son, that man is man, and woman is woman. Eauality cannot exist! 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Why — Why — Why! — we ask. 

GODDESS 
Because, — Evolution does not run in parellel lines, but one step above the other. 
From the Simple to the complex; from the one cell home, — a single physiological 



cell to the complex and magnetic electric human body — the Mother organism has 
evolved the various changes which have been designated — Evolution. 

The Mother cells existed — alone! Long ages before man appeared. The first male 
organism was Virgin Bom! This is a scientific fact. All ye who wish to know seek and 
ye will find. 

Divine Motherhood!— What is her Mission? Her Mission is to Inspire! Man's Mis- 
sion is to — Achieve! Materialise the ever ascending ideals of woman. Man is objective, 
material, woman subjective, spiritual, one step higher,, hence equality can not exist. 

Instinctively and theoretically, man places woman on a pesdestal. But practically — 
in the material world — Might rules Right! 

But, Impanted in all creation is the desire for the Divine Feminine; and the desire 
is the incentive of the highest aspirations, Woman has led the way towards the evo- 
lution of humanity. This fact is emphasized in recent scientific research; and long 
ages ago, by the Philosophers of the Middle Ages, 

All Science will undergo a transformation when Psychology, familiar with the gen- 
eolcgical facts, adopts them as the basis of its study. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Ah! — Goddess! — Why is it that the fear of woman has always dominated Man? 

GODDESS 
Man fears and suspects — what he can not understand. Man will never understand 
Woman until his soul is illuminated. 

VANDERBILT 
Yes, among primitive people the most extraordinary precautions have always been 
taken with regard to woman. 

LORD HEARTINGS 
The aboriginal Savages, who are afraid to eat with their wives, still survived in the 
"Cultured Illuminate" of the 19th century who refused to bestow academic Honours 
upon Women. In those days, before the enfranchisement of women, it was said that the 
feminine mind was incapable of understanding the great international subjects, 

GODDESS 
It is true, women never will nor never did cope with them in the same way as men 
did. Women have their own psychological methods which have brought great humani- 
tarian results, women to-day are familiar with the psycholgical laws of Finance, Soci- 
ology, Industry, Philosophy, Science and Religion, and from these wonderful discoveries 
have put into practical use laws of profound human importance, 

NANAK SHAH 
In these enlightened days we know and recognize the fact that in each species, 
including the human, we have to deal with two phases of organic and psychic develop- 
ment. 

GODDESS 
Yes, Taking this Illumination View, we understand why woman, as the most highly 
evolved and complex organism on the face of the Earth, has the greater psychic gift, 
the more responsiveness, the deeper intuition, the purer aspiration, the loftier spirit- 
ual conceptions. 

Science tells us that her position on the scale of life is the most exalted, the Sover- 
eign one. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Biologist tell us; woman is Anabolic, constructive, ascending. Man, Katabolic, 
destructive, descending, a fighting animal! 

GODDESS 
Yes. In the 19th century man was Katabolic; hence they had War. War was the 
outward and visible sign of the mental and spiritual chaos within their souls. The 
human race was at that time only in the grub stage of its existence — had not yet discov- 
ered its vast and unknown possibilities. 

LORD HEARTNGS 
Yes, in those days man sacrificed his ethical and spiritual nature for the material 
worshipped Mammon and deified matter. Hence, it laid no store upon life, only the 
products of life. Business; profit, gain came first — Humanity came second. Hence, 
ghastly, brutal, hideous war, men slaughtered like cattle; the Earth strewn with the 
graves of soldiers and sailors who sought each others lives in the name of Justice,! 

GODDESS 
But the New Era has dawned. Blank materialism passed away. The hour of 
woman struck. There was no putting aside the great Clock of Destiny, The enamci- 
pation of woman was inevitable. Not because woman demanded it, but because it is 



the great universal working out of the plan which brings about higher progress, 
Man to-day glories in the woman who expresses his larger manhood. 
In the 19th century there were only men and women. In our New Era there are 
only-human souls. And the only call is — heart to heart — life to life. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess thou art a nymph, whispering strains divine! 

GODDESS 
Hear me, King of War! — Thy Salvation is near! — But not long ago Thou wert a 
bold libertine! 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Hear me, bold heart! A woman, great in mind, heart and purpose can abash the 
boldest libertine, and turn desire to reverential love and holiest affection. 

GODDESS 
Could woman but realize her tremendous power! She might revolutionize the Earth? 

GENERAL VON MARS 
General Von Mars is ambitious! 

GODDESS 
Yes! A mad selfish ambition, — glorification of Self! 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess! — If mad ambition has made me unworthy of thee, — By all the Gods, this 
dagger which I hold shall rip it out though it entwined my heart. 

Most worthy Goddess, tell me what is the highest claim that can be made for my 
unconquerable ambition? 

GODDESS 
The highest claim that can be made for any action, any study, and emotion, is the 
uplifting of humanity, the uplifting of the Spirit of Man. 

By taking this attitude of Mind v/e learn to Love — Love in the deepest broadest 
sense — Love Humanity — See the oneness of things; and are thus developing the True 
Self — the Higher Self; Climbing the ladder by which we rise to the Greatest Power, — 
the Hightest Development. 

The possibilities of the human mind are boundless. But remember. 
Heaven is not reached at a single bound 
But we must build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly Earth to the vaulted skies 
And mount to the Summit round by round. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess — Is it possible for a Bold Libertine to reach Heaven? 

GODDESS 
No heights are to great for man to gain if he but set his Will to reach them — for 
there is a Divinity within each one of us to which all things are possible. 
There is no depth out of which you can not climb. 
There is no such a thing as failure excepting in ceasing to strive. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Great Jove! — "Woman's Mission is to inspire"! Were my will a sword! I, a thun- 
derbolt! But I am soul sick, weary of man. Rather would I make companionship of bear 
and tiger, — the lion in his den — than of man! My motto has ever been — War! War! 

GODDESS 
General Von Mars, — King of War,^ — Cast aside thoughts of War, depression and sor- 
row, lift up your eyes to the Light which neve' dies. Fill your heart with Peace. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess! — In thy presence the air is living sweetness,— my thoughts partake of 
prophecy. All clouds vanish. Golden Sun, shall I be like thee? 

GODDESS 
Hear me, General Von Mars! The future shall witness the day when you shall 
become as translucent as the Holy Grail to the radiant Light within. 
(The Goddess presents a sealed document to General Von Mars.) 
A message to the King of War from the Goddess of Peace. 
(The General is absorbed in reading his document.) 

GODDESS 
The only legitimate office of the Body is to express the Soul. 
(Sings) 
Until the tongue be framed to music 

The hand be armed with skill. ' 

The face be the mould of beauty, , . . 



The heart the throne of will. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess! — All wise and noble Goddess! Thou hast illuminated my soul! This 
magic document! Peace! — Peace! — Beautiful Peace! — Thou hast calmed the sto.m 
that was raging in my soul. 

(All raise their glasses and sing.) 
"He's a jolly good fellow." 

GENERAL VON MARS 
This magic document, this message from the Goddess of Peace, has opened my eyes 
to the glories of the Transendental Philosophy of Peace. 

I must know more of it. A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep or taste 
not of the Pierian Spring. 

I must know more of this Philosophy of Peace. How it is that in former days men 
and states went wrong. 

GODDESS 
I can show you how it is that in former days men and states went wrong; how it is 
that they were plunged into frightful warfare. 

In former days nations faced each other in the wrong attitude; they presupposed 
evil intentions of other countries — their neighbors— and good intentions on their 
own. This hypothesis is an inhuman notion. I say better to perish than to hate and 
fear. 

Hear me. Great King of War! — Hear the message of the Goddess of Peace! — Why 
in former days did we have war and bloodshed; — V/hy did all the magnificent schemes 
of man fail to bring satisfaction, contentment, happiness, Peace! — Because of the Miss- 
ing Chromosome. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Chromosome! — What's chromosome! — The missing chromosome? 
Goddess, General Von Mars craves enlightenment! (bowing very low) 

GODDESS 
The missing Chromosome is one of the vital constructive factors in life, — absent in 
man, — but ever present in woman. 

This extra chromosome is needed in all things tending to a higher state of being. 
Woe to the man who degrades the bright splendor of radium into lead, and thus extin- 
guishes the mental illumination, under the grossness of the material. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Alas! — Man is man! — A bundle of cells — material, — very material! 
Great Goddess, what can I do to be more worthy of thee, — ma Divinite! 

GODDESS 
General Von Mars, whenever in doubt and in need of enlightenment, consult your Cat- 
agorical Imperative, — The psychological signal will then be given thee; what to do or 
what not to do. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
My Catagorical Imperative has ever been, — The Will to Power! 

GODDESS 
That is a false Empirical Philosoph, — glorification of self — glorification of 
nations — men slaughtered like cattle in order to glorify one's country!^ criminal 
nationalism!— This was one of the causes of the Great International War of the 19th 
century. 

But the people who handed on the Torch of Life were those who placed the greatest 
value on Life itself. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess, who were these great people? 

GODDESS 
The Mothers of the race! They were the choosen ones, with the Un'derstanding 
Heart. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Naturally, the mothers of the race place more value on Life. 

GODDESS 
Yes. Thus the science of wisdom.the knowledge of the law of Thora, the Divine 
woman inaugurated a new order of things; brought all into unity with the eternal 
Truth of Life — the Law of Rightousness and Justice prevailed; and the Peace of the 
world was established by a Right Judgment in All Things! 

Through a higher understanding, the memorable day arrived when all the greatest 
nations renowned in war and victory, voluntarily exclaimed. "We will break our swords — 
destroy the whole military system." Thus the tree of military glory was destoyed at 



one swoop, — with one stroke of lightning. But, remember, lightning comes from above. 
GENERAL VON MARS 
Yes. I now see that Autocracy— the curse of our country — came from below. 
Every form of government, not representative, is a spurious form of government. 

GODDESS 
Yes, Autocracy is despotism. General Von Mars, the only constitution which 
perfectly corresponds to the right of Man is the Republican Constitution; but it is the 
most difficult to found and still more to maintain. So much so that in former days they 
maintained that the realization of a true Republican would be like a State formed by 
angles, because men were considered incapable of carrying out a constitution of so 
sublime a form. 

Finally the great Powers founded the Right of Nations on a Federation of Free States. 
Men gave up their savage war-like notions — and formed an evergrowing state of 
nations such as at last embraced all the nations of the Earth. Thus was formed a pos- 
itive, rational system, — A Universal Republic; such as we have in the most enlightened 
countries of the Great Unseen. 

GENERAL VON MARS 
Goddess, — In the Great Unseen, on your Golden Round, do the elements obey thee? 

GODDESS 
(Sings) 

Yes I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, 

From the Seas and the Streams, 
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid 

In their noonday dreams. i ■ 

From my wings are shaken the dews that waken 
The sweet buds every one, 
(Dances and Sings) ' , 

When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. 

As she dances about the sun. 
I wield the flail of the lashing hail, 

And whiten the green plains under; 
And then again I dissolve it in rain, 
And laugh as I pass in thunder. 



Daughter of Venus and of the waters am I, 

Nursling of the sky. 
I pass though the pores of the ocean and shores; 

I change but cannot die. 
Never, — Never, — Die ! 



This romance of the sky is prophetic 

Of a higher state of things. 
There is no death, — only change! 
And there's Sunshine for you, (to audience) 

Sunshine for you. 
Sunshine for us — all! 

And if you can't see it 
Your eyes are blinded 

For there is beauty and sunshine 

Everywhere! ' 

Look for the flowers, you find flowers. 
Look for the weeds, you find weeds. ,, 

May you always see the flowers. 
Flow ers! 

Farewell, — Farewel! 

A Kind Farewell!, 

All rise revently bowing as the Goddesss mysteriously vanishes. 

Curtain 



